Seriously, you're right, ships looking rly well compared to other games. I wonder how big can Josh go with ships (and maybe stations too?^^), before fps drop significantly. It seems to be an elegant way to avoid time consuming ship creation and modeling with some expensive 3D program.

+/- 1000 meter long ships was the goal. The smallest ships (fighters, probably) should be +/- 10 meter and Josh stated that the biggest ships could reach x100 that size. For stations is a little difficult to say, maybe 1000x1000x1000 meter max. What we don't know is of a number of stations could be joined together to make bigger ones (a chain of stations, so to speak).

I have no idea who that could be, but the image says something about Trent... ???

I really liked this update - when i first saw the ship i thought mm thats OK, then a seed number change and i thought 'wow' - also looks like we are in for an exciting few months, LTSL is amazing
Nice Josh - keep going man, and have a good day off

fraggdya's list of unreasonable demands!
1. I would like a tannoy in my ship that plays 'Ride of the Valkyries' on repeat.
2. A replica of the Icarus II ship
3. A shrubbery

I would have loved to see an example of an asymmetric ship in the video. Of course, symmetry is beautiful, but more often than not, due to module placement you would imagine that many smaller ships would be designed asymmetrically, and certainly that would add to the diversity of the universe.

Rabiator wrote:
I'm pretty sure we have seen the imposters. They took the place of faraway asteroids. That they were not recognizable as imposters is a success.

Well I was under the impression that they would replace pretty much all far away asteroids, So that way you could also see the small ones, not just the big ones from far away. And I also though they would pretty much remove the asteroid-popping issues.

I think the performance optimizations Josh talked about in the update was something else than imposters.

You're wrong. The imposters were there. The imposter fading wasn't. You should watch the video with closed eyes, just attending what Josh are talking about. Really. So much eye candy can be distracting. So separate eye candy from ear candy and there you go.